The Spaniel Annals
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I’m a retired English instructor, now devoted full-time to training, showing and enjoying my spaniels in many sports.
- agility
- Behavior
- competition
- conditioning
- dockdiving
- dual champion
- English Cocker
- English Springer Spaniel
- Fetch!
- field work
- Freestyle
- Gordon Setters
- heeling
- heeling journal
- Irish Water Spaniel
- match
- mental preparation
- new freestyle behaviors
- puppy training
- rally obedience
- retrieve
- scent work
- TEAM
- tracking
- training
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- Utility obedience
Month: October 2012
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This tracking photo, taken by the talented photographer Lisa Kaufman, does not at all capture the soggy fields of Bow, Washington today. I just forgot my camera! Today Reardon and I drove up to Bow to practice for the tracking tests coming up. Bow was his nemesis in the spring, and so I wanted to have…
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One thing that has slowed my energy level way down for any kind of thoughtful posting is Kani’s diagnosis of kidney failure. This occurred a few weeks ago when I took her in for yet another blood panel. Things just weren’t right, and she wasn’t keeping on weight, despite my upping her food level far…
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It’s been far to easy to quickly document dog happenings in the past few months in short bursts on Facebook. That’s a bad habit if I really want this blog to be a journal of my life with dogs. Time to stop that! August was a wonderful month. Reardon earned two legs on his Open…
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